Octodad: Dadliest Catch launching on PS4 next week

For those of you unfamiliar with Octodad, he’s a normal everyday father with an adoring family, but he just so happens to be an octopus! Life for him is a neverending struggle to control his wobbly limbs and to conceal his cephalopod secret from his loved ones. In Dadliest Catch, Octodad and his family take a disastrous trip to the aquarium, putting him at odds with marine biologists, a manic sushi chef, and his wife’s ever rising suspicions…

We started Octodad as a ragtag group of students, and it’s been a long and crazy ride getting our silly game on the PS4. This is our first foray into consoles, and we’re proud to be here. We released Octodad on PC back in January, and since then we’ve taken the time to improve it based on feedback from our players. The latter third of the game in particular has gone through some radical changes, with added challenges like deck swabbing, jig dancing, and new disguises to wear!

The PS4 version also has support for new controller configurations like PlayStation Move, double PlayStation Moves, and our personal favorite, PlayStation Move plus Nav controller! Let’s not forget local co-op mode, where you and your friends each take control of one of Octodad’s limbs and collectively cause chaos!

You know, If you have a contract phone you don’t actually need to wait. Go to the PlayStation store via a PC and log in to your account. Click add funds and you will be presented with 4 options, Giftcard, Credit Card, Paypal and Phone. If you are with a major network Vodafone etc, you can add multiples of Â£5 using your number! It just gets added to your next bill. Voila No waiting!

We tried to get the discount in for EU as well, but the scheduling of PS+ sales ended up being a different more lengthy process than we thought. We ended up having to make the decision of delaying the release a few weeks or running the sale later and releasing now.

We tried to get the discount in for EU as well, but the scheduling of PS+ sales ended up being a different more lengthy process than we thought. We ended up having to make the decision of delaying the release a few weeks or running the sale later and releasing now.

hey voodoo, roll back a second, think about it. what the dang are you complaining about?

scenario a: game releases alongside america, discount later. people who want the game get it early. people who see it in the store decide if they want to pay full price or not. if yes, cool, they have a real neat looking game. if not, they hold off, maybe pick it up cheaper later.

scenario b: game releases weeks after america, at discount. people who wanted the game asap have to wait. people who may have paid full price don’t have that opportunity. people who would have waited until discount still wait until discount.

a is a win-win, b is a lose-lose-win

talking like y’all getting swindled is not only insulting to the folks at young horses, but also to the consumer. don’t you think they are smart enough to make their own purchase decision?

i’ll for sure be there next week, paying a couple Â£s more to get some normal dad action asap.

Dont be so naive! What about all the customers that don’t access the blog or know that these cowboys intend to apply a discount in a few weeks? They’re being ripped completely off. The clowns at SCEE or Young Horses will not give back the value of the discounts to anyone that buys at launch. Will they put a warning on the game when it’s listed ‘WAIT A FEW WEEKS FOR A 20% DISCOUNT’? I don’t think so. You’re happy for this to happen just so you can get the game at the same time as the US! Stupid! Here’s a win : win SCEE and Young Horses get their act together and release the game in Europe with the same discount at the same time as the US! Valve can do it on Steam, Microsoft can do it on XBL!

I agree a bit with Voodoo, but I really wouldn’t blame the developers on this one. Sony Europe team is to blame as they consistently let us down, see Walking Dead season passes, or the price of PS4 games being announced 12 hours before release, $ to Â£ conversion and so on. The continent is a confusing one and should be broken up, just because theres some archaic rules in some parts of Europe doesn’t mean the rest of us should suffer. As you say Microsoft can do it, Steam can do it, what makes Sony so special to rip off digital customers?

If it were up to us we would put the discount into place. If it were just a flip of a switch we would make it happen without question. It’s not an excuse when we actually have no control over it. We fought for it, and lost.

We’re hoping to run a similar promotion in the near future for EU as we did in the Americas. The scheduling of sales in EU is sort of lengthy and if we wanted to get the game out now we had to forego it, sadly. We really wanted to. :/

Do you ever give it a rest? The Dev has told you why yet you somehow think it’s a deliberate attempt to rip off the eu. Get a grip and that kind your lucky stars you don’t live in a country that operates with the Euro (like me)

I saw TotalBiscuit play a bit of this (on PC obviously).. and it doesn’t look like the kind of thing I’d enjoy. That being said, if this were to ever go for free on PS+, (and I bet it would somewhere down the line) I’d probably try it. It’s just not one I’d jump on straight away.

Sorry guys not one to complain,but the kinda excuse on price and sales is just BS really,
Just put the price what you want it to be, and if its the same as other stores then weres the problem.
Imho the problem is your community seeing feeble excuses like this one.

I agree, but we don’t have that much control, unfortunately. =/ We would have had to delay the game release quite a bit to account for a launch discount. Our options weren’t very good, but we thought this way we could be transparent about it.

I would have grabbed this on Wednesday at the posted price, I for one don’t feel entitled to a discount for every release. But now that I know it was supposed to be discounted and that it’s gonna be discounted in a few weeks I’ll stick to my backlog and pick it up at the cheaper price.

Of course the question must be asked of Fred, why exactly does it take weeks longer to get a PS+ discount signed off in Europe compared to America? These sort of differences just make no sense and only serve to rile people up so why not fix them?

I’ll pick it up at full price on day 1. Obviously I’d like the discount, but you guys are awesome, honest and open so I don’t really mind paying full price because you seem very trustworthy. I have been waiting for this game for so long and enjoyed the demo I played in the game store. I held out buying it on Steam so I could enjoy the PS4 version.

Not only that but they quickly fire out personal insults on those that disagree with them. Half of the usual suspects should have been given posting bans ages ago. Hopefully we’ll get that much needed ignore button and they can all scream into the vacuum together while the rest if us get on with proper discussion.

Over on CVG he was THE big Sony fanboy, to the point he used to report Xbox owning moderators just because he didn’t agree with them. So to see him now constantly complain here over nothing when he apparently hated that behaviour elsewhere is funny yet weird.

First we get everything a day or two late, then everything is more expensive, we get mostly rubbish free PS4 games now we’re not getting any discounts what is the point in PS Plus I’m starting to feel like they are just stealing my money now.